D. E. Larsen, DVM Many dogs and cats hate to go to the veterinary clinic. This is probably a learned experience. Clinic staff makes every effort to make the visit enjoyable, but something unfavorable happens sooner or later. They get a shot, or they are forced to take a pill. Worse still, they are thrownContinue reading “That Horrible Trip to the Vet”
Category Archives: Veterinary Medicine
Don’t Give that Injection
D. E. Larsen, DVM I looked at the clock, 5:30 in the morning. I have no idea how long the phone has been ringing. I roll over and stretch to lift the receiver. “Good morning,” I say. There is an old lady on the line, she sounds frantic, it takes me a couple of minutesContinue reading “Don’t Give that Injection”
Wild Horses
D. E. Larsen, DVM Standing at the corral fence, we were looking at the ugliest horse that I had ever seen. She was an older roan mare that my father-in-law, Jim Leibelt, had just adopted from the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse Adoption Center in Burns. She looked like she had just stepped offContinue reading “Wild Horses”
Memoirs of a Country Vet 